Nirupama Dutt

Profile

Nirupama Dutt is a poet, journalist and translator based in Chandigarh. She writes in Punjabi and English. Her published work includes Ik Nadi Sanwali Jahi (A Stream Somewhat Dark), a book of poems, for which she received the Punjabi Akademi Award; Lal Singh Dil: Poet of the Revolution. She has also translated and edited an anthology of Punjabi fiction, Stories of the Soil; an anthology of fiction by Pakistani women writers, Half the Sky, and a collection of resistance literature from Pakistan, Children of the Night.